Great Broadway Moments Ed Sullivan Show PBS special--4 DVD set?

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 3/10/15 at 10:52pm

That Ed Sullivan Show special finally aired on my local PBS. As we discussed, it mostly had the same clips the old DVD from 10+ years had. However, during their break, they mentioned that if you donate money you get a 4 DVD set. But, it's not on sale at their store yet and I can't find a listing of what's on it. Anyone know? http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/feb/27/great-broadway-musical-moments-ed-sullivan-show/

[jv92]

Posted: 3/10/15 at 10:55pm

I was wondering the same thing...

[Kimbo]

Posted: 3/11/15 at 1:33am

Track Lists:



DVD #1 (program DVD)

· From Man Of La Mancha: "THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM" - Richard Kiley

· From Bye Bye Birdie: "PUT ON A HAPPY FACE" - Dick Van Dyke

· From George M: " GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY "- Joel Grey

· From Oklahoma!: "OKLAHOMA!" - John Raitt/Celeste Holme/Florence Henderson/Barbara Cook/Richard Collett

· From My Fair Lady: "WOULDN'T IT BE LOVERLY" - Julie Andrews

· From Camelot: "WHAT DO THE SIMPLE FOLK DO" - Julie Andrews & Richard Burton

· From West Side Story: " TONIGHT" - Larry Kert & Carol Lawrence

· From Sweet Charity: " I'M A BRASS BAND" - Gwen Verdon

· From Annie Get Your Gun: "ANYTHING YOU CAN DO" - Ethel Merman

· From Annie Get Your Gun : "THERE'S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS" - Ethel Merman



DVD #2 (bonus performances from The Ed Sullivan Show )

· From Oklahoma! "I CAN'T SAY NO" - Celeste Holm

· From Carousel: " IF I LOVED YOU" - John Raitt

· From The King and I: "A PUZZLEMENT" - Yul Brynner

· From South Pacific: "BALI HA'I" - Juanita Hall

· From Flower Drum Song: "I ENJOY BEING A GIRL" - Pat Suzuki

· From Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: "DIAMONDS ARE A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND" - Carol Channing

· From The Roar of The Greasepaint, The Smell Of The Crowd: "WHO CAN I TURN TO (WHEN NOBODY NEEDS ME)? - Anthony Newley

· From Hello Dolly : "BEFORE THE PARADE PASSES BY" - Pearl Bailey



DVD #3 (bonus performances from The Ed Sullivan Show )

· From Showboat : "CAN'T HELP LOVIN' THAT MAN" - Lena Horne

· From Showboat : "OL' MAN RIVER" - Robert Merill

· From The New Moon : "LOVER COME BACK TO ME" - Mimi Benzell

· From Sweet Adelaine - Comic Diner Scene - Wally Cox

· "THE LAST TIME I SAW PARIS" - Tabbert, Mim Benzell, Robert Merrill & Cast

· From South Pacific : "SOME ENCHANTED EVENING" - Robert Merrill

· From Carousel : "YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE" - Robert Merrill



DVD #4 (bonus performances from The Ed Sullivan Show)

· From Oklahoma!: "PEOPLE WILL SAY WE'RE IN LOVE" - John Raitt & Florence Henderson

· From Allegro : "A FELLOW NEEDS A GIRL" - Celeste Holm

· From Oklahoma!: "THE SURREY WITH THE FRINGE ON TOP" - Richard Collett

· From Fanny : "BE KIND TO YOUR PARENTS" - Florence Henderson

· From Babes In Arms : "THE LADY IS A TRAMP" - Johnny Mathis

· From Oklahoma!: "OH WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MORNING" - John Davidson

· From The King and I : "SHALL WE DANCE" - Shirley Jones & Herschel Bernardi

· From The King and I : "I WHISTLE A HAPPY TUNE" - Shirley Jones

· From Two By Two : "TWO BY TWO" - Danny Kaye

· From The Sound of Music : "CLIMB EVERY MOUNTAIN" - Cast

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 3/11/15 at 3:54am

Thanks for that--and wow that's disappointing. They can't even put the full 15-20 minute Flower Drum Song segment--just one song? And so little on each disc? And what's with all the random, non-cast R&H? Boo.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/11/15 at 11:24am

They could have put a ton more on them. In addition, a lot of stuff is left out like Chita singing Mean from Bajour and a big number from Gantry

This is the tip of the iceberg .It is a disappointment and will pass on them.

[goldenboy]

Posted: 3/11/15 at 12:17pm

Thanks. You saved me $150
I would have been first in line for the DVD if it included
Norman Wisdom in Walking Happy, Henry Sweet Henry, Bajour, Gantry,... all
of the lost musicals you can never see...

but for just the standard stuff thats been seen and done to death??
No thank you.

Who puts these DVD's together? Total missed opportunity

[PalJoey]

Posted: 3/11/15 at 12:31pm

There have been, floating around for decades, OR SO I HAVE BEEN TOLD, 7 2-hour VHS tapes and an 8th VHS tape with one hour on it, of unreleased Broadway performances from the Ed Sullivan show from the first days of television in 1949 to the last days of the show.

FIFTEEN hours of Broadway performances--OR SO I HAVE BEEN TOLD.

The stupid Sullivan people refuse to release the clips and prosecute anyone who puts them up on YouTube.

OR SO I HAVE BEEN TOLD.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 3/11/15 at 12:40pm

YOU'VE BEEN TOLD? IN ALL CAPS?!!

[Dollypop]

Posted: 3/11/15 at 12:47pm

I'd have loved the inclusion of Lucille Ball singing "Hey Look Me Over" from WILDCAT and Ginger Rogers doing "Before the Parade Passes By" from DOLLY!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 3/11/15 at 2:14pm

The Holy Grail on the 15 hours of Sullivan Broadway clips--OR SO I HAVE BEEN TOLD--is the clip from one of Sullivan's 1951 Talk of the Town broadcasts in which Gertrude Lawrence performs "Getting to Know You."

The only extant kinescope has both video and audio for less than a minute--and then the video cuts off!

Many have wept openly at the thought that a video record of her performance is there--and yet not there.

Or so I have been told.

Updated On: 3/11/15 at 02:14 PM

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 3/11/15 at 2:21pm

If I could just slide in here with a quick question...

A while ago, somebody here posted a video link to an Ed Sullivan clip from a Broadway show I think from the early 70s - the song and title of the show escape me - but it was a young girl in a green mac singing "Don't let it rain, don't let it rain, don't let it rain...", a great uptempo song with brilliant choreography. That's all I remember. I've tried googling a combination of those things to jog my memory, but to no avail. It's been bugging me for ages.

Anybody know what I'm talking about?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 3/11/15 at 2:32pm

It was Alice Playten, singing "Poor Little Person," from Henry Sweet Henry, choreographed by a young Michael Bennett

https://youtu.be/6lyv67Peo4w

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 3/11/15 at 2:53pm

PJ I have that video of Lawrence on the show. The clip runs 6:45 and is her at a piano singing a medley of songs and talking about the show. Sadly, after about 30 seconds there is no picture only audio. About 90 seconds later, the picture returns for maybe 30 seconds with her at the piano singing and then is black for the rest of the almost 7 minutes. But it's still great to hear.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 3/11/15 at 2:55pm

No love for Georgia Brown singing "As Long As He Needs Me" from Oliver?

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 3/11/15 at 3:27pm

^ No. No love at all. That song belongs to Shani Wallis now.

[best12bars]

Posted: 3/11/15 at 3:38pm

Such a missed opportunity. What a horribly watered-down set.

The problem in getting more numbers on the discs is the same problem we have with any variety show from Carol Burnett to Cher ... they have to re-license (and pay for) the rights to each song.

The price would be driven higher to have more songs, but I think people would be willing to pay for them.

And it's kind of insulting to the consumer to have (by my estimates) less than an hour's worth of material on each disc. They could have fit these on two discs or three.

Four looks like scam to me.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 3/11/15 at 4:05pm

The 15 hours include 20-minute-long segments devoted to several musicals: including two different extended segments from Merman's Annie Get Your Gun: one in black and white, from the 1950s and one in color from the 1968 Lincoln Center production that was nicknamed "Granny Get Your Gun."

Plus, extended segments from Bye Bye Birdie, Flower Drum Song, My Fair Lady and Camelot (or am I misremembering from some other Lerner & Loewe TV show?) and some musical set in Hawaii about a Hawaiian father marrying off his daughters, like a Polynesian Fiddler.

I don't care for the Georgia Brown. The song is overwrought enough with an subtle and understated singer. Georgia Brown is too much.

https://youtu.be/hG0FqwOGfNk

See what I mean?

And there are lots of good Merman clips, bother her standards and more unusual songs. Pk

Updated On: 3/11/15 at 04:05 PM

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 3/11/15 at 4:08pm

And what's with all the random, non-cast R&H?

In the case of Oklahoma, some of it was from the 1953 City Center cast which included Florence Henderson as Laury and Barbara Cook as Ado Annie. Others are just popular performers of the day singing standards. Funny thing is, I actually saw John Davidson as Curly in Oklahoma around 1990 (with the beautiful Kim Crosby as Laury and Jamie Farr as Ali Hakim).

[PalJoey]

Posted: 3/11/15 at 4:09pm

Here's the whole 14:47 segment from Bye Bye Birdie:

https://youtu.be/K-GQIsE80Ug


Them six months later, he had Chita on to fo "Spanish Rose":

https://youtu.be/NzNEuQRxgOY

Updated On: 3/11/15 at 04:09 PM

[PalJoey]

Posted: 3/11/15 at 4:12pm

This one's pretty rare: Lucille Ball and Paula Stewart doing "Hey, Look Me Over" from Wildcat:

https://youtu.be/wm8oBXS3uNc

[PalJoey]

Posted: 3/11/15 at 4:19pm

And this 7:25 clip of Karen Morrow singing "I Had a Ball" is the greatest thing in the history of television...or perhaps the world:

https://youtu.be/5vtTNnWHwa0

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/11/15 at 4:32pm

I have an old single DVD with about 12 of these numbers on it. Therefore, I would really be getting 3 dvd's instead of 4. No thanks.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 3/11/15 at 4:48pm

"^ No. No love at all. That song belongs to Shani Wallis now."

Yeah, right. Because Nancy was a perky blonde who just happened to be slumming with some down and outers in her gap year, gathering information so she could have a solid response to her "If you could change the world" question when she competed in the Miss London Pagent.

[ratherbewhaling]

Posted: 3/11/15 at 6:53pm

I watched that last night as well. It made me wish that there was a champion of broadway on TV today like Ed Sullivan had been back then.

I decided to get the dvds since my family always donates to pbs every year anyway, why not get something out of it

I did some looking around for the actual contents of the gift, and The DVD package is not just those four Ed Sullivan dvds, it also includes:

12-DVD set, The Rodgers & Hammerstein Collection
Here are 6 films from the most successful writing team in the American musical theater - Rodgers & Hammerstein - with colorful, romantic stories, brilliant performances, and a virtual catalogue of nearly 100 of the very best show tune s in history.
This 12-disc set includes the two-disc special editions of each film, remastered and anamorphically enhanced for widescreen TVs (except State Fair , which was shot in traditional 1.33:1 aspect ratio).
Bonus features include documentaries, trailers; the Todd-AO version ofOklahoma! (widescreen, 70 mm film format); 40th-anniversary bonus material for The Sound of Music , including a commentary track by Julie Andrews; Lilliom , the 1934 film based on the same story as Carousel ; and the 1962 remake version of State Fair starring Pat Boone and Ann-Margaret.

• Disc 1: Carousel Special Edition
• Disc 2: Carousel Special Edition-Bonus Disc
• Disc 3: King and I Special Edition
• Disc 4: King and I Special Edition-Bonus Disc
• Disc 5: South Pacific Special Edition
• Disc 6: South Pacific Special Edition-Bonus Disc
• Disc 7: Sound of Music Special Edition
• Disc 8: Sound of Music Special Edition-Bonus Disc
• Disc 9: State Fair (1945) Special Edition
• Disc 10: State Fair (1962) Special Edition-Bonus Disc
• Disc 11: Oklahoma Special Edition
• Disc 12: Oklahoma Special Edition-Bonus Disc

Updated On: 3/11/15 at 06:53 PM

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 3/11/15 at 7:35pm

Thanks, PalJoey.